Return of Poetry Corner would brighten our lives
Teaching significant history to future generations is important for schools, but a display in an actual guns and weapons shop window certainly isn’t the way to go about it. History shouldn’t be completely hidden, but even costume displays like this should be in a much more appropriate place, such as a museum, where school history classes could visit to learn.
Joan Plowright, actress, 90; David Dimbleby, broadcaster, 81; Hank Marvin, guitarist (The Shadows), 78; Mark James, golfer, 66; Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, 64; Julia Roberts (pictured), actress, 52; Joaquin Phoenix, actor, 45;
Smith, footballer, 39.
IN the midst of pages of trials, tribulations and uncertainty, might now be a good time to revive the little jewel of ‘Poetry Corner’, a popular weekly feature some years ago; to let it shine in its ability to evoke emotions other than frustration with the often depressing daily events?
It does seem to be an appropriate time as Huddersfield’s Simon Armitage is crowned the new Poet Laureate.
And we do have a wealth of creative words stored in the ample poetry groups in Huddersfield (once known as ‘the poetry capital of the north’) and its surrounding areas.
Perhaps others may also think this could be beneficial for
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My husband was sent home with sepsis
HOW I sympathise with Kathryn Simoni and the treatment of her father Neil Bell, who has paid into the NHS all his life (
I too have had numerous occasions to complain. The worst one was a few years ago.
A GP and two hospital doctors dismissed my husband’s claim of being in agony and dreadful pain.
Twice he was sent home with morphine and told he was fine, and went back to work.
He arrived home the next day and collapsed. He had sepsis and all his organs were shutting down. Fortunately he recovered. the humor of Bernard Manning anyway.
What they have to remember is that my letters are not for their benefit, I write to show the normal people of Huddersfield just how extreme and stuck to their silly beliefs Brexiters are, and it works every time!
Where is our knight in shining armour?
LIKE it or lump it, what the electorate should be clear on is that an MP is his own man/woman. He is not a delegate but exercises his own judgement on behalf of the people he represents.
Barry Sheerman has many constituents who are Brexiters but he himself is an ardent remainer – therefore, I suspect he will not be supporting any Boris Johnson deal. I suspect this situation is not isolated.
Is this mess democracy? Yes, in a way. On the other hand, no!
Whence comes the knight in shining armour to rescue our beleaguered country?
I’ll have no pleasure in saying I told you so
I SEE that the Brexit carpet chewers were out in force in Saturday’s
Yet again they appear to lament the fact that despite the outcome of the EU referendum, “democratically” elected MPs have not all rushed over the precipice with the “father of lies” and his sinister sidekicks in Downing Street.
Why is it anti-democratic to want another referendum when it was not anti-democratic to overturn the outcome of the referendum that took us into the EU in the first place?
It really is not attractive to keep banging on about how “the people” voted to leave.
The inconvenient fact is that we have prospered and our society is enriched and more secure by our membership of the EU.
It will give me no satisfaction to say we told you so as unemployment rises, the country falls into recession, medicines and food have to be rationed and we become an American theme park.